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This paper describes our experience developing a mobile, cloud-based weather alert system, which was motivated by the need to overcome the limitations in an existing, centralized severe weather warning system at Vanderbilt University. We faced different design choices, integration challenges and a substantial learning curve in realizing a decentralized, scalable, and easy-to-use solution. In our solution, Android devices in the vicinity of the hazardous weather event can post timely data to a server, including the approximate location of the severe weather incident, and where the server, in turn, can distribute messages scalably to relevant Android devices. The use case for this research was severe weather alerting, however, we surmise that the basic patterns and design choices used in the mobile application design can be used in other related scenarios. |
